Originally Posted by AfterThisNap
Are ISIS and fixed/track mutually exclusive technologies? From a practical standpoint more people around here should make the switch.
Lots of people in this forum praise sugino 75 cranksets for being so stiff, but the setup doesn't compare in stiffness to , say, a hollowtech crank and octalink BB. ISIS BBs are also inherently stiffer than square taper BB interfaces as well. Outboarded bearings are going to be smooth and rigid as hell, just not NJS (buy you can press in Phil bearings though).
yeah, that's what i was getting at with the second part of my last post. any crank can be used for fixed/SS, but a lot of folks (myself included) are really into purpose-specific things.
Originally Posted by AfterThisNap
I think this is part of the reason I am weirded out with the obsession with King headsets. Many of the same people that tout the performance and functionality value of a King HS would not be caught dead with ISIS cranks or outboareded BB technology on their rides, despite the performance/functionality benefits.
the biggest problem with ISIS BBs specifically, is longevity (of the bearings). i've seem them crap the bed in under a month on a MTB. they seem to last longer on road bikes, though. outboard bearings are percieved to increase the Q factor, which is undesirable for track/fixie use (doesn't seem to hurt most pro roadies though). plenty of people already use them for SS MTBing.